Born July 15, 1984, Nawroz Khan Mangal was the first captain of Afghanistan and one of the most inspiration figure of the nation. Mangal is quite unlike hard-hitter Afghanistani batters and infact have good technique which provided solidity in the middle order. On the birthday of one of Afghasnitan’s hero, here are some interesting facts which covers his life story.

Childhood in refugee camps

Nawroz was born in Kabul and because of civil war, he fled from Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and spent early years in refuge camps of neighboring country Pakistan with his family. Nawroz returned to Afghanistan US Army put an end to Taliban rule in 2001.

It is that time of the year. It is July 7, yet another birthday for India’s most loved cricketer MS Dhoni. With this birthday, Dhoni turns 36 and our statistician Abhishek Kumar present some mind-boggling statistics about him from his illustrious career.

1 — Dhoni is the only Indian till date to be dismissed run out for golden duck on ODI debut. A total of 10 players have achieved this feat in ODIs. Dhoni was the first to fall under this unwanted list in this century. After Dhoni, two more cricketers got this record to their name — Sharafuddin Ashraf (Afghanistan) and Rilee Rossouw (South Africa). Before Dhoni, players to achieve this record are Gavin Rennie (Zimbabwe), Chamara Dunusinghe (Sri Lanka), Ian Healy (Australia), Peter May (Australia), Paul Allott (England), Ijaz Faqih (Pakistan) and Brian Close (England).

At the start of IPL 2008, the award was named as Best U-19, then in 2009 it changed to Best U-23. Later in 2011, it was again changed to Rising Star of The Year, followed by Best Young Player of the Season in 2013 but finally in 2014, it was given a stable name Emerging Player of the edition.

Andrew Tye opened up on various topics, such as Perth Scorchers chances of defending the title, his obsession with ‘knuckle ball’, being a go-to death bowler in T20s, his story from pitch curator to cricketer, role played by Justin Langer in his career, etc.